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The grand plan

Perth Red

Perth Red

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Wb1234 said:
Speedway is going again

And dunno why they can’t do the fan zone in that red section you’ve highlighted above
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It’s terracing at moment, that’s what I’ve suggested they need to demolish half the terracing and put it there.
 
Perth Red

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insert.pause said:
Makes shark park look like a palace, what a f**king dump!
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At least it can hold 25k! Shark park is sht and can’t even hold many,

It’s certainly unique! In bullmania heyday with 20k in it on warm summers night with all the razzmatazz it was a great night out for a bradford uni student like me!

only stadium I’ve ever been to where you walk down into it, not up the stands like others.
 
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Darwinism isn’t a bad thing here and as these clubs realise super league is beyond them the game will focus on the elite clubs in super league

Giants were planning on buying Halifax ground and moving there anyway

Looking at a map it’s not that far from hudds anyway
 
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Wb1234 said:
Darwinism isn’t a bad thing here and as these clubs realise super league is beyond them the game will focus on the elite clubs in super league

Giants were planning on buying Halifax ground and moving there anyway

Looking at a map it’s not that far from hudds anyway
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Hopefully there becomes a clear distinction between a SL club and a Championship club like between Q cup and NRL. Where championship can still have a following and develop talent but adopt a SL club as theirs.
Look at the clubs around Manchester, if they all just got behind one club, it would be massive, good crowds and TV audience. The way it is now, you have people in Oldham, Rochdale, Swinton , Salford all trying to go it alone.
 
Dark Corner

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Gobsmacked said:
Hopefully there becomes a clear distinction between a SL club and a Championship club like between Q cup and NRL. Where championship can still have a following and develop talent but adopt a SL club as theirs.
Look at the clubs around Manchester, if they all just got behind one club, it would be massive, good crowds and TV audience. The way it is now, you have people in Oldham, Rochdale, Swinton , Salford all trying to go it alone.
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I hate mergers but that would be a good one if the fans could get behind it and the same with Whitehaven and Workington who had just under 5,000 last week against St.Helens.
 
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Gobsmacked said:
Look at the clubs around Manchester, if they all just got behind one club, it would be massive, good crowds and TV audience. The way it is now, you have people in Oldham, Rochdale, Swinton , Salford all trying to go it alone.
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The rivalry between those towns/villages goes back literally hundreds if not thousands of years, they`d chew their own arms off before join forces with one of their neighbours, greater good or not.
 
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Gobsmacked said:
Hopefully there becomes a clear distinction between a SL club and a Championship club like between Q cup and NRL. Where championship can still have a following and develop talent but adopt a SL club as theirs.
Look at the clubs around Manchester, if they all just got behind one club, it would be massive, good crowds and TV audience. The way it is now, you have people in Oldham, Rochdale, Swinton , Salford all trying to go it alone.
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Yeah - as much as us non-Sydney NRL fans have given the competition grief over having so many Sydney clubs, the "closed shop" model that our top tier has had (ie no baked-in, season-to-season promotion/relegation) has served the game well in the southern hemisphere.

We DON'T have "yo-yo" clubs that constantly alternating between top tier & 2nd tier, and when new teams are added to the top tier it's done considering everything the bids can bring to the table.

The creation of a clear 1st & 2nd tier in the British system - with a similar to the NRL closed shop 1st tier may encourage some 2nd tier clubs to merge or launch bids (separately or together in the case of Greater Manchester), lifting their standards so they can be considered for the next expansion wave.

Note, I said expansion not promotion, as it's conceivable teams could come through from 2nd tier OR be newly formed entities.

For now, the creation of a super-sized 2nd tier from the championship and league 1 is a good start.. and leaving Superleague and the new Championship for a while to settle & find their feet is gonna make for exciting times.
 
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